[OS X TeX] change in behavior

[Nitecki, Zbigniew H.]

I found the source of the problem.  A label contained a macro, which is where the “\delta^{*}” in the .aux file came from.  Once I changed the label, the problem disappeared.

On Aug 26, 2021, at 18:47, Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au<mailto:ross.moore at mq.edu.au>> wrote:

Hi Zibby.

There is probably an error in one of the auxiliary files. Probably also an entry in the .log  file, about ‘missing begin document’ if it is .aux or other file, read before LaTeX is ready to accept material for typesetting.

Check for this first.
There may be other clues in the .log file, indicating which file was being input at the time the message was created.

When you have an idea of which file to look at, open it in a text editor and pull its window wide open so that there is no wrapping.
You should then be able to see where the spurious entry is coming from.
It is possible that material was meant to be on the previous line, protected by a comment-character, but a line-break has got into the file-stream, thus unprotecting it.

When you find such an error, you will be much better placed to look for the reason why it happened.

Hope this helps.

    Ross

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On 27 Aug 2021, at 7:41 am, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com<mailto:herbs at wideopenwest.com>> wrote:



> On Aug 26, 2021, at 11:59 AM, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu<mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu>> wrote:
>
>
> However, I now have an unwanted entry at the top of my title page. When I click or option-click on it, nothing happens, but if I command-click on it, I am taken to an entry
> in my .aux file. The relevan tline there is
>> \newlabel{dfn:\delta ^{*}}{{\M at TitleReference {23.3}{Definition of the Hausdorff Metric}}{403}{}{theorem.23.3}{}}
> What appears on the title page is
> 23.3403theorem.23.3
>
> The text entry (in the .tex file) which yields this is, I believe
>> \section{Definition of the Hausdorff Metric}\label{sec:Hausdorff}
>
>

Howdy,

Hmmm... I have no idea what that is. Please try to put together a minimum file that shows the problem so we can test it. You say that cleaning out ALL auxiliary files and typesetting from scratch still produces that line in your .aux file? Note: this cannot be TeXShop since it only typesets the document and the aux file is created by the processing of your file, not by TeXShop.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com<mailto:herbs at wideopenwest.com>


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